She Was Thrown Out With Her Newborn—Then a Powerful Senator Arrived, Called Her His Daughter, and Exposed a Twenty-Five-Year Secret Behind Her Marriage
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Chapter 7
Two weeks later, the United States Grand Jury convened in Capitol Hill to hear testimony regarding the Montgomery trust fund fraud.
Investigators presented bank statements proving Evelyn had embezzled fifty million dollars intended for Clara's upbringing.
Evelyn sat in the holding cell, wearing a coarse orange jumpsuit that contrasted horribly with her former socialite status.
She stared at the concrete walls, her haughty smirk replaced by a permanent expression of hollow despair.
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Her high-society friends had scrubbed her name from every charity board and country club registry in the state.
The woman who had once ruled the mansion was now completely isolated from the world she sought to control.
